"Globalization" is the growth integration of economies and societies around the world-The World Bank. Globalization is such a complex thing that you could look at so many aspects of it and still find something new to look at. So i am going to focus on the positives and negatives of globalization.
Their are quite a few positives to globalization and many of them have to do with the economy. First globalization creates new jobs in many newly formed and growing counties. It also helps with the production of goods at lower cost which then turns into lower costs for consumers in the world. It also helps by taking machines and ideas to new places to be used and improved upon by the people. But globalization doesn't just help the economy it also helps the over all world by bringing new ideas and ways of life to many countries and helps people to know more about the world as a whole.
Now even though globalization does many great things around the world that are almost too numerous to mention it can also cause great problems. Globalization has started to spread so rapidly that it would be very hard to control it. I said earlier that globalization helps the economy of countries and it does but the way it helps doesn’t always benefit the workers of the country. Many businesses will outsource and offshore many jobs that used to be in the country that the business was based in and many people of that country had jobs in that business. But as the businesses outsource and offshore many of those jobs start to disappear. The whole spread of ideas is great for the world but globalization has almost taken it too far. Some countries are starting to loss their own cultures because they try to hard to adapt to the western way of life. Globalization is starting to make it so you almost have to have a western way of life to fit in and that is not good.
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
Net Affect of Globolization
Posted by Jonathan at 6:28 AM
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Jonathan,
Your reasons on the negative impact and positive are very strong, and the connections you have made between them. This piece could have been better if you had stated the side you are focusing on. Are you thinking negative or positive? Has it benefited us, or destroyed our culture? There are places I would have to agree with, a reason for our loss of culture is also because the western world has spread out to much, that, for example, anywhere you go there will be a McDonalds! The countries are becoming so alike, there might not even be a difference of where you are anymore.
On the other hand, the reasons of the positive impacts is true and I do agree with your reasoning. Overall, you have strong paragraphs and nice job with explaining.
Niki
Jonathan, your reasoning is really good. You state the facts clearly and its obvious that there are many pros and cons. I don't think you left any details or reasons out. But one thing is, you never really stated what the net effect was. Was is good or bad? You've put for a lot of good information, but you haven't really stated your side. Your paragraphs were really good, and the information was right on key, but you just need to tell what you think the net effect is. But overall, you did a good, solid job.
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